40 Questions About Creation and Evolution - by Kenneth Keathley and Mark Rooker
Sadly this book was
not what I thought it would be, I was expecting an exclusive defense of a
literal 24 hour day week of creation; but that is my own fault, if I had looked
at the back cover more closely I would have seen that the book is not claiming
to defend only one view of creation.
There are four views presented, two are defended, those being the
literal-24 hour day view and the Day-Age theory. In the very first chapter/question the
suggestion is made that 'young-earth creationists' come "perilously"
close to 'blind faith', but as I understand it, old earth creationists
believe(as do YECs) that God ultimately created out of nothing, so why is
taking God at His Word in the case of Creation out of nothing less 'blind
faith' than believing that God created out of nothing in six literal days? Why is one more plausible than the other or
less hard to believe? Aren't both
ultimately above our reason? J. I.
Packer is quoted in the book, "To say that
he(God) created 'out of nothing' is to confess the mystery, not explain
it." Only, in the case of the six day creation we are given an
explanation as to how much time God chose to use to create…six days! So we
actually have more information about the timing of Creation than we do about
Creation out of nothing. So, I ask which
view is, to use their term(which I don't even like), more of a 'blind
faith'?
As you probably know
by now, the universal flood is also defended and critiqued(though the global
flood seems to be presented as the more biblical view). I don't get the local flood view…wouldn't
Noah and the animals just move to an area that wasn't going to be flooded
instead of building an ark? They'd have
plenty of time to do that…120 years! Or maybe a year doesn't mean a year…maybe
it means an hour(I'm being sarcastic here)?
Overall, despite the
authors being anti-Darwinian, and pro God created out of nothing, the book is
just too inconclusive in dealing with the specifics presented in the Bible
about the Creation. It just doesn't
strike me as being a very edifying book for Christians.
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